3.3 Spread of Behaviors

📔 Session A (SRG)¶

Discussion of readings.

1. 📖 Damon Centola (2010) “The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment”. Science, 329(5996), 1194–1197.

2. 📖 Damon Centola & Michael Macy (2007) “Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties”. American Journal of Sociology, 113(3), 702–734.

🔆 Complex Contagion Networks (Slides)

📔 Session B (Lab)¶

Modeling the SI and SIR models.

• Started building the SI and SIR models in NetLogo during this class. This is the starting code from previous lecture.

• This is where we left off. We will continue building the SIR model next class...

🔆 Epidemic Modeling (Slides)